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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1917
Page
4
Obituary notices honor Samira Hopkins born 1835 New York died 1917 in Wyoming Town Iowa with nine children listed and Methodist ties. Also death of Simon Drost in Davenport and details of a house fire on Pence farm plus updates on local schools frost and regimental move to France.
In Sand Spring and nearby towns residents visit relatives attend fairs and travel to cities. Notable items include Mrs. F M Billings from Deer Lodge visiting sisters in Hopkinton, staff of Monticello and Marion on inquiries, and many locals attending the Delaware County fair in Manchester and the Minnesota state fair in Minneapolis. The report notes the death of Mrs. Margaret Greer and visits among families in Cedar Rapids Dubuque Hopkinton Monticello and Earlville.
Last week at the H. Pierce home Miss Edith Gestel 18 attended Lenox academy this year. Johnny Prult spent last Friday in Monticello. Len Lang was a Hopkinton visitor Saturday.
Center Junction notices report Tomlinson suffered a broken shoulder and fractured thigh when a harness broke and a kicking horse struck him. Drs. Young and Chamberlain attended. The issue also lists church events, bake sales, a barber shop sale, and two weddings including George J. Hucker and Ethel McKenzie.
Prairieburg people attend a theater opening with a Solon band, while a funeral is held for John Marek Jr. at St. Joseph's. Louise Divoky starts a school department post from Dubuque. Others report job moves, hunting trips, arm injury from a car crank, and visits across Solon, Springville, West Branch, Marion, and Cedar Rapids.
Castle Grove reports a harsh week for corn with a three week early freeze lowering bumper crop hopes. The 30 degree low preceded a busy week of schooling with Ali Huffman Rose Kehoe Mary Kehoe teaching changes. local losses from lightning hit livestock and illness. visits and projects fill the week along with new cement stave silos and a nearing plastering phase for O A Hall’s house.
Hopkinton friends receive notices of the marriage of Esther Juanita Sager to Charles Albert Spence on September 1 in Carizozo New Mexico. The groom is the eldest son of C and Mrs Spence engaged in stock raising. Mrs Aurilla Martin dies September 1 1917 born 1835 in Vermont later a teacher then a resident of Hopkinton. Herman Philipp leases the hotel to Mrs L E Bellis of Alta Vista taking possession October 1. Ephraim J Hopkins dies at daughter Mrs R B Goss’s home after illness.
Mrs Elizabeth Boyer and Mr Cornelius I Gross wed at St Mary's church with Rev J Z Albers officiating on Monday September 8. Miss Melissa Kingsley to attend Frances Shrimer college at Mt Carroll Illinois. Elizabeth Donovan and Dwight B Deminy married at St Martins rectory September 6 by Rev L Roche. Charles Albert Livermore dies at home in Hast Cascade after diabetes illness. Maurice Kirby dies at son Leo Kirby's home in Whitewater township aged about 75. A child burns but suffers only minor injuries from an alley fire near a bakery. Thomas Kingsley writes from France about safe voyage and favorable treatment of troops. Mrs Margaret Greer dies at Hopkinton Iowa aged about 69 after long illness. service held at Hopkinton with Reverends Coleman and McKnight. buried there with family.
Mrs James McGuinn died at her home in Anamosa last night leaving a large family of children. Funeral services are set for tomorrow. Miss Florence Gould will teach music at Independence and Miss Olive Gould will lead the normal training department. Four Jones county boys in the Second Regiment of Engineers head to France from Washington. Anamosa schools opened with the highest opening-week high school attendance in 1916 17, total 159. Miss Hjort resigned. Miss Helen Cromer and Miss Bessie Malorey join the teaching staff.
A long list of donors and supporters is acknowledged for furnishing and equipping private rooms terrazzo floors and wall decorations at the John McDonald Memorial Hospital. Names include Mrs. Peter C. Smith Mrs. William Stuhler Mrs. George L. Lovell and many Monticello church groups and lodges. C. N. Patrick is credited for glasses fitting. PMID
Alfred L. Fagan died at his sister’s Cascade home Friday afternoon after a brief illness from heart failure. Born November 12 1880 in Cascade he was about 37. Survived by Herman J. Fagan Dubuque Mrs. C D Baldwin Mrs. C F Crawford Miss Inez G Fagan Fred H Fagan and W F Fagan. Funeral at St Martin’s church Monday at 9 a.m.
The Des Moines Register notes a list of residents summoned to appear at Anamosa Iowa courthouse on October 1 at ten in the morning for the September 1917 term as petit jurors. Names include Ambuehl Brock Fairbanks Fisher Green Grafft Guhl Holub Horr Hansen Hartman Knake LeRue Ledwina McHart Maloney Meade Rickels Rigby Robertson Starry Stingley Stuhler Shoop Stanaway Snyder Straeslin Thompson Watters Wherry along with others from Monticello Anamosa Olin Center Junction Wyoming Lisbon Oxford Junction and surrounding areas. The Perry Chief adds Labor Day reflections and a quip about baseball statistics.
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